Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-05-27
LOCAL .. BRIEFS.

mr.; Jesse r. w bite is on q bnsi.
ness trip to Bristol.
Mrs. a. B, Buchanan is on a visit
10 her father. 4 &. Chapman, Bristol,
Tenn. 81
There was considerable "benzinen
afioat yesterday, considering the
s'dryness" of the town.
We are grateful to Miss i. Lyons
and B. Alexander, for aninyi.ation to
be present at the closing exercises of
Augusta Female Seminary, Staunton.
Invitations have beenreceiyed from
the Virgins Agricultural and Me.
chanical College, Blackburg, and
Plumer Memorial College, Wytheyille.
We return thanks.
Mr.. J.sD. Alexander is in Balti.
moro buying goods and willreturn
by way of Staunton, to attend the
commencement at the Seminary
and bring home his daugliter-Miss
Bette
3 The trial of all issue causes pend.
ing in the County Court were con.
sinued ;tillsthe June term, in conse.
auenea Of The sitting of the Circuit
Court. Hsnceforth June has been
indicated as, a quarterly term, instead
of May.
A picnic is spoken of among the
young people. 1t is proposed to go
to Burk's Garden on one evening and
return the next We know of moth
ing that would be nicer. But, BIZ the
way, Int the Garden q favorite spot
for ''picnicers."
An additional efficiency has been
added to the working force of tho
Clinch Valley Railroad Company, by
the employment OF two craftsmen,
Mr.. Senplea, of Easton, Pa, and Mr..
Watts, late Of Washington City, D..
g., and the presence OF Dir. Raun,
Civil Engineer.
Judge Fulton and Judge Coulling
have forlnedya partnership for the
practice of law in the Circuit Court
of Tazewell. We refer the public to
their law card, which we publish else
where. These gentlemen need no in.
PRODUCTION. Ability and integrity
need no encomium.
o$cars Moore, of Abb,s Valley, has
put out FIVE acres in potatoes. one
acre in beans, olie acre in cabbage,
and half an acre in onions; prompt
ed by the demand at Pocahontas;
also the usual surface in corn, and
q fino lot ofoattle in his blue grass
fields. Trucking in the Southwest
can now beat Norfolk.
Capt. Eichelberber, the man of
much work, with detail Of his force
OF assistants! returned : to Kelly's
Mills, Wednesday, and laid out the
grounds for b depot and sidings. No
more convenient or appropriate situa-
ton can be found on the line of road
1t is stated four acres of Capt.
Judges nicelaud will be utilized for
the purpose indicated.
In tho Circuit I Court, last week, the
jury, in the case of Woodyard's
Administrator VS.. Norfolk &Nestern
Railroad Co., found verdict for
$4,000 in favor of plaintiff, who claim
ed $4,000 damages for the killing of
plaintiffs son, while coupling cars at
Pocahontas. The court set aside tie
verdict as contrary to the law and
evidence, and granted a new trial.
The readers of the News who have
lett this section aud are now dwellers
in the west, and who would like to
read OF the wonderful development
that is going on, of the new rail
roads, of the building up of towns in
places they once knew as almost viii.
dernesses. Of new people, new plans,
new ideas and new wealth, should
send 81 on and receive for one year
The Southwest Virginia Industrial
Record a bran new 10 page paper
published at Tazewell q. II.
We have been favored with an in
production, this week, to Thomas
WNisten, Esar p promising young
Lawyer Of Edinburg, Mo-, son OF
DIR, Robert: b. Witten, formerly OF
this county. The father of young
Witten aud the senior editor Of this
paper began life as contemporaries.
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